Theme: There is Light For This Dark World

We are in the early days of winter, the days when darkness has the upper hand.  The nights are long, so thatmany of us go to sleep in darkness and awake in darkness.  These hours of darkness are alreadyshortening, day by day; darkness is gradually giving way to the light.  But in the fall the process will begin again,with darkness overtaking the light.  Sothe darkness in nature advances and recedes, but it never completely goes away. This darkness in the natural world is a reminder that there is another kind of darkness in thisworld: spiritual darkness.  This is thedarkness that is the absence of spiritual light, the absence of the Savior Jesus Christ.  He is the Light of theworld.  Where He is known and believedthere is light and life.  Where He is notknown or where He is rejected there is nothing but darkness and death.  This world, infected by sin and with Satan asits god, is a dark place.  The evidenceof its darkness we see all around us, and we see it every day.